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CHAPEL HILL, N. C.f THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1941
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NUMBER 67
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CVTC Plans ' Army Science, Brill Classes After Christmas
Military Corps
Training Courses
Open to Students
A program of two hours infantry
drill each week will be offered through
out the winter quarter immediately
upon the expiration of the Christmas
holiday, it was announced from the
Carolina Volunteer Training Corps
headquarters yesterday.
All students who find that schedule
confiiction will preclude the possibili
ties of campus military training may
revise their class times within one
week after 'January 5, administration
informed sources revealed.
The drill programs will fall between
four and five o'clock on Tuesday and
Thursday. Members of the drill corps
are not required to take a military
science course.
The drill will be conducted by mem
bers of CVTC who have an adequate
military background. The battalion
will be divided into three companies
with R. K. Adams, W. M. Sigler, W.
E. Gray, R. C. Jones, H. P. Crane, T.
P. Harries, P. Calhoun, W. C. Calhoun,
J. F. Dibrell, L. D. Watson, N. B.
Waters, T. T. Hammond, R. S. Glenn,
C. W. Jenkins, J. H. Wisebram, W.
Hoblitzell, and W. Woodward acting
as officers.
A call was issued yesterday for more
students and faculty men who will
volunteer to serve as officers in the
corps.
At least one basic course and one ad
vanced course in military science and
tactics will be offered. Each course will
meet three hours per week and will
give three full credit hours towards
University diplomas as electives. All
students registered in these courses
will be required to take drills.
Registration for the drill courses
See CVTC, page A.
Alumnus Dies
In Jap Attack
On Pearl Harbor
William Manley Thompson, Carolina
graduate of June, 1941, was among
those killed on the USS Oklahoma De
cember 7, it was announced yesterday
when the first University war casualty
list arrived.
Serving as Ensign on board the
Oklahoma, Thompson's death followed
the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor.
The giant battleship was severely dam
aged following the bombing attacks,
but was not sunk.
A graduate of the commerce schoolt
Thompson entered active duty in the
Navy immediately upon graduation.
He was a member of the Phi Delta
Theta social fraternity in which he
served as house treasurer during his
senior year.
Elected treasurer of Sound and
Fury, Thompson was a member of the
varsity swimming team for three
years and member of the Monogram
club.
Carolina Faces First Year of War
With Widespread Plans for Future
University Speeds-Up Preparations
For All-Out Aid in New Emergency
Enrollment figures
Reach Normal Mark
Registration figures Carolina's
first indication of wartime enroll
ment reached 2,953 yesterday, a
normal mark, with the Medical, Law
and Graduate schools still unre
ported., .
I. C Griffin, Central Records of
fice chieftain, told the Daily Tar
Heel that the figure compared
"favorably" with . other years, and
as yet has shown no effect by the
draft. Undergraduate enrollment,
which ended Tuesday afternoon, and
graduate enrollment which contin-,
ues through tomorrow, will begin
again on January 3, and all students
"who failed to register during the
prescribed period must be here on
that date.
CYA Drive
Nets $6008
Initial Campaign
Ends Successfully
Carolina's initial CYA student aid
drive came to a successful conclusion
yesterday as E. S. Lanier, University
self-help director disclosed thct a total
of $6,008.60 had been collected or
pledged in the two week old effort.
Student inspired, and directed, the
drive which has received high praise
from state officials and newspapers
throughout the state began upon an
nouncement that nation-wide NYA
budget cuts would drop approximately
75 students from Carolina's NYA lists.
Official figures released yesterday by
Lanier disclosed student organizations
contributed a bulk of the $6,008 total.
Organizations donated $2,780, while
1,130 students pledged $2,653.50 to the
fund, and individual and faculty dona
tions reached $275.
Additional contributions from the
Chapel Hill Merchants Association,
plus $155.10 from a special movie do
nated by movie manager E. Carring
ton Smith, brought the total slightly
over the $6,000 mark.
Heads of the student CYA commit
tee CYA DRIVE, page U.
No Changes Made
In NROTC Status
Can tain Haeeart. Commander of
the NROTC, announced yesterday that
a number of students had applied re
cently for admission to the NROTC.
However, as yet, "there are no plans
for changes or accommodations for
the admission of these students."
Carolina faced its first year of war this week with extensive preparation
for the Winter quarter, sweeping into action on three fronts as student, faculty
and administrative leaders disclosed the "future book" for 1942.
The faculty: Meeting in "extraordinary session," academic leaders appointed
an emergency investigating committee
empowered to "consider and act upon
special petitions of students arising
from the national situation, and the
recent ruling abolishing comprehensive
examinations." The group, already
holding sessions in answer to under
graduate requests, is headed by Dean
D. D. Carroll, with Dean A. W. Hobbs,
Dean F. F. Bradshaw, and Drs. A. R
Newsome and D. MacMillan assisting.
Petition Cases
It was understood, from sources
close to South building's intricate
machinery, that the five-man council
has dealt primarily with cases involv
ing petitions for. graduation without
comprehensive check. Originally ap
pointed to slit much of the red tape
holding-up students seeking degrees
immediately, the faculty men have run
up against bottlenecks on the way. The
committee has ruled consistently, it
was reported, against making the new
plan retroactive.
It is possible, however, for students
seeking such permission to present a
written request to the University
Board of Trustees. The faculty group
acts to facilitate the action and speed
up the process without trustee review.
Student Activity
The students: The Civilian morale-
defense and Volunteer Training Corps
movements are making "definite prog-
Academic Front
Administration to Consider
New Changes in Curriculum
In conjunction with the new turn inSwar, and will be open to all under
national affairs, various departments
of the University are proposing
amendments to their curriculums to
the administration. -x
The Department of Philosophy is
suggesting a course next quarter on
"Man and the War." It will be given
by a staff of faculty members and will
cover "The Philosophies of War," "The
Role of Students in War and Peace,"
and the relationships of economics,
politics, society, and psychology with
war.
If approved by the administration,
it will probably be given as a five-hour
course in the Divisions of the Humani
ties and the Social Sciences. This is
not to be a "war issues" course, but
rather a discussion of civilization at
graduates.
To meet the needs of students who
may be going into the armed forces,
the Mathematics department an
nounces several changes in its Fresh
man courses, so that undergraduates
will be adequately grounded in alge
bra, plane and spherical trigonometry.
Mathematics 2 and 5 will begin with
plane trigonometry and continue the
work started in the fall quarter. The
repeat sections, Mathematics 1 and 4,
will start in with a regular college al
gebra course.
Economics 131, the five-hour course
in economic theory, will be modified so
as to study the operation of both the
free economy and the planned war
See NEW COURSES, page A.
Initiation
Bill Passed
Pledges to Be Put
Through in Winter
John Thorp, president of the Inter-
fraternity Council, announced that the
resolution whereby all fraternities be
allowed to initiate pledges in the win
ter quarter was officially approved by
the faculty committee on fraternities
late yesterday.
'The final draft of the request gives
fraternity heads permission to initiate
only those freshmen who have averaged
C or better in all their Fall quarter sub
jects. Dr. J. C. Lyons, head of the
committee, stressed the fact that this
move was not to be.. considered per
manent but was only to hold for the
duration of present conditions.
Members of the Interfraternity
Council deemed this new arrangement
necessary so that the pledge class
might better acclimate themselves be
fore their second year, in view of the
fact that many of the older actives
might leave this spring.
Horace Williams
Airport Placed
Under Guard
langible evidence of the war can
now be seen at the University's Hor
ace Williams Airport.
Overnight it has become as hard to
crack as Pope Field at Fort Bragg.
No one now is allowed within its
gates without a pass or evidence that
they are on official business.
W. R. Mann, Coordinator of the
University's civilian pilots training
course under the CAA and manager of
the Airport, is on duty all day and some
of the night.
All day, of course, mechanics, in
structors and WPA employees who are
hurrying construction of the new field,
are on hand.
And at night five guards are sta
tioned at the flying school office, at the
hangar, and at the entrance of the field.
A huge flood light illuminates the han
gar and the three runways, two of them
more than 4,uuu feet lone and one
5,000 feet long.
Carolina's 30 student pilots and
Duke's 10 are again roaming the skies
over the country side in this vicinity
and are trying to complete the fall
training before the Christmas holidays.
However, the grounding process forced
them to lose some valuable time and it
is expected that some may even have to
remain in Chapel Hill through the holi
days. Students and instructors who did
not possess birth certificates were
grounded early last week, but most of
them have now been re-instated after
having received official okays from
CAA inspectors.
The next course begins on January
15 and will continue until May 15.
Extra Mag Copies'
Selling Rapidly
One hundred extra copies pf the mag,
printed to meet demand, are on sale in
the Book Exchange. Only 30 remain,
editor Henry Moll, said yesterday.
Moll advised that students who de
sired extra copies to send out or save
purchase them immediately.
iress," as long-contemplated steps are
being taken to insure "their success."
An extension to statewide prominence
of the morale effort is foreseen for
1942, with a panel arrangement, radio
support, information center and cam
pus activity on the slate.
The administration: From the of
fices of South building pressure is be-
See FUTURE PLANS, page U.
CPT Status
Unchanged
By Crisis
Application has been made to the
Civilian Aeronautics Authority for
provision and appropriation to increase
the ranks of Carolina's Civilian Pilot
Training Program, W. R. Mann, direc
tor, said last night.
Forty student pilots may be accom
modated under the present set-up with
ten of those coming from Duke Uni
versity. Horace Williams Airport, the
largest college field in the country, pro
vides room for the teaching of many
more students than are enrolled at
present.
Registration for the course opening
next quarter is continuing through the
early part of January but Mann urged
that students wishing to enroll signify
that intention by contacting him at the
airport immediately.
Over 40 students attended a meet
ing of aspiring pilots last Monday
night in Bingham hall at which Mann
outlined the program and briefed the
process of registering, enrolling, and
training.
In place of the CAA physical exam
ination given to past groups applying
for CPT training, the applicants for
the next course will undergo a more
severe test differing little from the reg
ular Army and Navy air corp exam
inations.
Innovation, also, is a plan whereby
his one physical remains valid for en
trance into the advance CPT program
thecross-country program, and the in
structor's refresher program, if al
bur are taken within twelve months
after completing the primary course.
Winter quarter course will begin
"sometime between" January 15 and
February 1. Applicants must be be
tween 19 and 26, have completed at
east one year's college requirements,
and pass the physical test.
To be interpreted anyway you wish,
Mann said, is the statement that "I
pledge to enlist in the Army or Navy
air corp when needed." This must be
signed by all students accepted for
training, and has been the cause of
most questions posed by applicants.
Civilian Unit
To Give Study
In All Phases
Students to Train
In Dorm, Fraternity
Protection System
American Military Chieftains
Relieved of Posts on Islands
Pending Inquiry of Disaster
By United Press
WASHINGTON Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel has been
relieved of the command of the United States Fleet and replaced
by Admiral Chester V. Nimitz, the Navy department announced
tonight.
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson also announced tonight that
Lieutenant General Delos C. Emmons of the Air corps has ar
rived at Honolulu to take over the command of the Hawaiian de
partment, relieving Lieutenant General Walter C. Short.
Brigadier General C. L. Tinker, Air corps, is proceeding to
Hawaii to take command of the air forces relieving Major Gen
eral Frederick L. Martin.
"These changes are made in view of the preliminary report of
the Secretary of the Navy with whose views as to the unprepared
ness of the situation on December 7, the Secretary of War con
curs, and to expedite the reorganization of the air defenses in the
islands," a war department announcement said.
Roosevelt Gets Censorship Powers
WASHINGTON The House completed Congressional action tonight on
legislation giving President Roosevelt broader war powers than Woodrow
Wilson wielded inr World War I as three cabinet members drafted a far-
reaching censorship program authorized under the bill.
WASHINGTON A War department communique said late today that
American forces have the situation "well in hand" in the Philippines.
WASHINGTON The House tonight approved legislation creating a poten
tial draft army- of 6,000,000 men between the ages of 21 and 44, inclusive, and j
requiring all males from 18 to 65 to register for either military or non-com-battant
service.
State Department Announces Plan
WASHINGTON The State department tonight - announced a reciprocal
plan under which German, Japanese and Hungarian diplomats and some na-
See NEWS BRIEFS, page U
With the driving force of a full
fledged wartime emergency program,
the Civilian Defense unit of the Uni
versity will inaugurate a program of
immediate student training for war
and post-war problems at the opening
of the winter quarter, it was announced
from campus defense headquarters yesterday.
In cooperation with the local Office
of Civilian Defense in Chapel Hill,
headed by Mayor John Foushee and
Dean F. F. Bradshaw, the campus unit
will initiate a volunteer recruiting sys
tem for training in the seven required
functions. Included are: air raid war
den, guard duty, first aid, etc.
Each dormitory and fraternity will
be converted into a defense unit, Louis
Harris, student coordinator, an
nounced. "Student protection of stu
dent buildings will be the program,"
he said.
Students will also receive complete
training in every phase of civilian de
fense applicable in any civilian center.
. First:' recreational'-training. Stu
dents will be offered the opportunity to
employ war psychology in the produc
tion of recreational programs and the
organization of wartime community ac
tivities.
Second: nutrition. Studies of the
diets available and the most efficient
use of obtainable food products will be
organized.
Third: consumers' problems. Re
search into the question of consump
tion during war in all fields except
food will be taken up in this division.
The program will be aimed particularly
toward coed interest.
Fourth: first aid. Training in the
care of civilian injured will be opened .
for both coeds and men students.
Other phases of the defense program
at the University, as outlined by ex
ecutive committee members yesterday,
will include revisions and additions to
the University curriculum. Courses on
war issues, war psycnoiogy, ana post
war reconstruction will be offered to
students although definite arrange
ments have not been completed. Stu
dent machinery will . be organized to
cooperate with the faculty in the recep
tion of student suggestions and reac-
See DEFENSE, page 4.
UNC to Present
Coast-to-Coast
Radio Programs
Coast-to-coast broadcasts from the
campus studios in Caldwell hall over
more than 180 Mutual stations will be
gin in January and run through May,
Dr. Ralph McDonald, Associate Di
rector of the Extension division and
director of the University's radio
broadcasting, announced yesterday.
The University network productions
will feature the Carolina Playmakers
of the Air, directed by Earl Wynn,
and the University Music department
of which Herbert Livingston is radio
chairman. The programs will be heard
on Saturday afternoons from 3:30 un
til 4 o'clock.
The 1942 Carolina Playmakers of
the Air series will include dramas writ
ten especially for the playmakers by
Paul Green, Struthers Burt, James
Boyd, Noel Houston, Josephina Niggli,
and other Carolina playwrights. To
initiate the Mutual broadcasts on
anuary 10, Paul Green is writing a
radio adaptation of The Lost Colony.
Making its national radio debut the
University Music department will pre
sent a series of programs featuring
he University Band, the Glee Clubs,
the Orchestra, the Chapel Hill Choral
club, and student 'and faculty ensembles.